Initial steps

4. Starting programming

Skill 3. Creating a flowchart

Skill 3. Creating a flowchart

Knowing how to create flowcharts will help you to show how to order sequences of instructions.

A flowchart is a diagram that shows a sequence of instructions.

It has:

• a Start box, to tell you where you begin
• a Stop box, to tell you where to stop
• Process boxes, to tell you what to do – these are instructions
• Arrows to tell you which box to look at next.

Each box has a special shape as shown.

The arrows tell you the order in which to carry out the instructions.

Start

Stop

Process

Skill 3. Creating a flowchart

Key words

• Flowchart: a series of boxes, connected with arrows.
• Process: an action that performs a task, or changes something.
• Order: the way items are arranged.